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It's hard to imagine legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki needing to be any more lauded than he already is. Over 95 percent of Japan's population has watched one of his movies, people see uploading his films to the Internet as being the fast tr...

Earlier last week, we heard that Compile Heart and Knights in the Nightmare developer Sting would be revealing the latest details on the second game in the Date A Live series. This week, Dengeki shared a look at some of the new and returning chara...

Date A Live comes out with more CG illustrations from its upcoming visual novel, all of which look quite nice despite being far from the first revealed frame of Tohka magnificence, and fairly standard overall.

4 anime shorts, 1 action game to get release on PSN this spring Namco Bandai Games revealed on Thursday that it will release all four anime shorts in Katsuhiro Otomo's Short Peace omnibus project, as well as the fifth part, the Ranko Tsukigime's L...

'Danchi Tomoo' Anime Gets Second Year Greenlight Posted by Chris Beveridge January 30, 2014 at 02:10 PM Danchi Tomoo One show we got to talk about a bit late last year is Danchi Tomoo, a more family oriented show that doesn't fit in with what most...

Winter has come to Evangelion Memoria, a social mobile game based on the Rebuild of Evangelion movies. The game is run on the mobile gaming service Mobage, operated by DeNA; Memoria recently celebrated its one year anniversary.

NIS America shared a new trailer for Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the revised and revamped PS Vita port of the 2010 PSP original. Watch as the sinister Monokuma breaks things down in the video below.

Comments from the man in charge of the anime adaptation of titanic anime Shingeki no Kyojin seem to have put the kibosh on any hopes of a second season in 2014 as they are "busy with the OAD" – although he does at least concede they "would like to...

HEAVEN OR HELL? This is just one of many questions you'll be shouting aloud as you watch the Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- arcade opening, which developer Arc System Works recently popped online with English subtitles.

If you're looking for a unique Japanese gift that's light in your luggage but heavy in tradition, then this is the item for you. It's called the KD Daruma (Knock-Down Daruma) and it's modelled on the centuries-old, round, good-luck talisman which ...

Nintendo will not be bringing their games to smartphones and other smart devices, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated during a financial results meeting with investors and analysts today. "Many people say that releasing Nintendo's software as...

DVD / live / release / SID Fans of シド(SID) listen up! SID announced the release of their new album "OUTSIDER" just recently, which is scheduled to drop on March 12th already! BUT today they announced something new!

Looks like Dengeki Bunko is at it again as they announce new additions to their upcoming fighting game, Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax. With the inclusion of OreImo's Kirino and Kuroneko in the upcoming crossover fighting game to take on heavy hitt...

Seven Seas has announced that their latest manga license is Kokoro Connect, from Anda Sadanatsu (author) and CUTEG (artist). The adaptation of the relationship comedy light novel series, also adapted into a 2012 anime, is due to launch in Augus...

The tale of online fans that tossed two testimonial video actors into battle. By now you may have seen the videos floating around the internet. If you're a visitor to 4chan, you've most certainly caught a glimpse of the casual, laid-back battle th...

'Nigerian Mafia' running wild in Kabukicho In August, a club allegedly spiked a customer's drink before robbing him On Monday, Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of two Filipino hostesses working at club Little Cat, located in the red-...

'Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou' Anime Cast, Staff & Visual Revealed Posted by Chris Beveridge January 29, 2014 at 06:34 PM It's a good time to be a fan of works by Ruri Miyahara as after the anime adaptation of Love Lab in 2013, spring 2014 will see th...

Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web began streaming the second full trailer on Monday for the live-action film of Eiko Kadono's fantasy novel series Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin). The trailer previews Mai Kuraki's theme song "Wake Me Up," ...

Sometimes it's easy to ignore the corporate aspect of how anime is produced, but it can lead to some interesting potential. Nippon Television Network Corporation has completed the acquisition of 54. 3% of Tatsunoko as a way to have more in-house m...

Sashihara Rino's first photobook (写真集) was released in December 2013 and is titled, "Neko ni Maketa" The photobook is 152 pages, full color, full of photos (almost entirely) and comes with a minature posted folded up inside.

Put on your nostalgia glasses, people: Square Enix has seen fit to grace us with one of its greatest non-playable endeavors of all time with a Final Fantasy XIII story recap done up in Super Nintendo-era graphics a la Final Fantasy VI – otherwise ...

Space Dandy is a dandy with the undead! Last week on Space Dandy, Dandy and his crew fought back the Deathgerian in an attempt to get their lost Boobies card back. Summary of Space Dandy Episode 4: After capturing a strange alien, the crew tries t...

J-Rock screamo band DAZZLE VISION will be featured on the SADS tribute album to be released this March in Japan. DAZZLE VISION will contribute their cover of the song "Hate," originally released on the album The Rose God Gave Me in 2001.